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Exodus 6:7

Exodus 6:7
And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

And I will bring you in unto the land,.... The land of Canaan:

concerning the which I did swear; or lift up my hand (a), which was a gesture used in swearing, Gen 14:22.

to give it to Abraham, to…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

I will take you to me for a people, etc. - This was precisely the covenant that he had made with Abraham. See Gen 17:7, and see Clarke's note on Gen 17:7.

And ye shall know that I am the Lord your God…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Exodus 6:1-9

Here, I. God silences Moses's complaints with the assurance of success in this negotiation, repeating the promise made him in Exo 3:20, After that, he will let you go. When Moses was at his wit's end,…